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“There’s still a lot of folks who believe that, ‘oh, somebody’s going to bring a big box of AI and set it on my desk,’” Lt. Gen. Mike Groen, director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, says. “This is not some black box. This is about your insight into the battlefield.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Today’s huge HQs are slow-moving “rocket magnets” that can’t keep up in 21st century combat, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center told us in an exclusive interview. To survive and win, Lt. Gen. Mike Groen said, the military must replace cumbersome manual processes with AI.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Artificial intelligence developed to hunt terrorists can help track Russian and Chinese targets as well – especially amidst murky, chaotic conflicts in the “grey zone” between peace and open war.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Agile technology development incorporating artificial intelligence, 5G, and cloud into the network infrastructure will create the overmatch that the U.S. military needs.
By Barry Rosenberg“Artificial Intelligence… is not a black box that a contractor is going to deliver to you,” Lt. Gen. Michael Groen says. “It’s commander’s business at every level[:] What data drives your decision-making?”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The best way to show US troops the power of new technology like artificial intelligence, one general said, is to let them suffer defeat at its hands — in training exercises.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Next fall, the Army aims to test a new artificial intelligence for artillery and fire the prototype PrSM missile to its full 300-plus-mile range — once they find a venue that’s big enough.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center convened a dozen foreign partners, ranging from NATO allies to Israel, Japan, Korea, and neutral Finland & Sweden.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The 2022 budget “probably looks to be flat,” Vic Mercado, assistant secretary of defense for strategy, plans and capabilities, says. “We still have to look to the future, maybe take some risks in the near-term, and make some investments in those technologies that we’re going to need in the future like hypersonics, artificial intelligence.”
By Paul McLeary“Artificial intelligence and machine learning onboard the satellites to help us control the constellations is absolutely critical,” says NRO Director Chris Scolese. For ground stations, too.
By Theresa HitchensDespite past battles over Project Maven and other military uses of AI, “Google and many others” are now working with the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, its new acting director says.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center needs three things: new acquisition authorities, more staff, and the cloud. With JEDI delayed ‘potentially many more months,’ director Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan said, he’s turning to an Air Force alternative.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The RAND report, commissioned by the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, unsurprisingly recommends more power for the JAIC over future service budgets. Right now AI efforts are so diffuse no one’s even sure what’s in the 2020 appropriations bill just passed.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.